LOS ANGELES − "Do you see the difference?" I'm sitting in a chair looking at myself in a mirror. Over my gray apron, Brenda Cooper − a stylist, author and professional color analyst − drapes two ...

Purple: It's the color of Barney the dinosaur, certain iris blooms, and eggplant. However, scientists now say that the color we know as purple may not actually exist. That is going to come as ...

One of the earliest discoveries in perceptual psychology was the existence of color afterimages. For example, the square below on the right is clearly white. But if you first stare at the red square ...

The quest to artificially create and control structural colors has been driven by their unique properties: they can be more vibrant, longer-lasting, and less toxic than traditional pigments. Moreover, ...